Right2Know KZN Discussion: “Secrecy in our Communities”
RIGHT2KNOW DISCUSSION:
“Secrecy in our Communities”
FRIDAY 26 OCTOBER
Time: 15H00 – 18H00
Speaker: Dale McKinnley
(Independent writer, researcher, lecturer, activist)
Venue: UKZN Howard College Campus MTB Hall
From the government’s attempts to obscure excessive expenditure on the president’s Nkandla compound through the invocation of the apartheid-era National Key Points Act; through the eThekwini Municipality’s continued failure to release the Manase Report – which allegedly details extensive corruption; to the smoke and mirrors that conceal the events surrounding the Marikana massacre; the state is becoming increasingly secretive in its dealings with the public. Although this is resulting in an ever more restless populace as demonstrated by progressively more violent protests, it also has the malign effect of suppressing self-expression within our communities. Self-censorship is the ultimate form of repression and when we succumb to it, as a nation, our hard-won democracy ends and totalitarianism takes over.
This insidious form of censorship subjugates society and the fear and suspicion that results is akin to already living under a dictatorship.
Join the Right2Know this Friday to discuss the danger of allowing secrecy to dominate our lives
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT
R2K KZN Coordinator: Vanessa Burger
0828477766
r2kkzn@gmail.com
